MONTICELLO — Forty-year-old Jason Michael Whitaker created a dustup Wednesday morning when police say he shot at a person in the area of Third and Turpie streets.

Monticello police received several reports at 11:35 a.m. of multiple shots fired at another person, police said in a news release.

Police declared an emergency situation, reporting an active shooter, according to radio traffic. Police blocked off Third Street in the areas north and south of Turpie Street, according to confirmed Indiana State Police broadcasts.

Monticello police found a Whitaker's intended target sitting in a car a few blocks from where the shots were reported, according to a news release. The person was not injured, police said.

Police found Whitaker and another person inside a home in the 600 block of Turpie Street, Monticello police said.

After questioning, the person with Whitaker was released without charges.

Whitaker, however, went to jail on preliminary charges of criminal recklessness with a deadly weapon. He remained incarcerated Thursday morning, according to jail officers.

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